Deafness and incomprehension, producing anomie and a reluctance to vote, are the default modes of the modern electorate. |
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Knowledge comes of shared experience while ignorance and incomprehension of the other can be the consequences of time unshared. |
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After a few moments of complete incomprehension, Em broke out of her daze and blinked up at her fellow instrumentalists. |
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As a blogger, by contrast, I almost invariably receive one of two reactions, glowing praise or a look of total incomprehension. |
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On the other hand, it meant that some of his ideas provoked hostile opposition, while others were greeted with incomprehension or indifference. |
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It wasn't as if he was speaking Gaelic, his first language, simply that his Lewis lilt was unfamiliar to the point of incomprehension. |
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Startled by the torchlight, their shallow caprine eyes gazed back in fear and incomprehension at the source. |
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She takes my incomprehension to signify that we'll never really understand each other and are thus, not each other's Ones. |
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With two complicit systems of self-justification and self-fulfilling incomprehension reinforcing the divide, is there any way forward? |
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In one scene we see Vicki's complete incomprehension of the gangster talk that surrounds her. |
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I remember listening to Debussy preludes for the first couple of times with similar enjoyable incomprehension. |
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But, in between, there were dozens and dozens of people who showed every sign of genuine hurt and incomprehension. |
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What he cannot see, in his cultural incomprehension, are the numberless indications of our collective strength, character, and resolve. |
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But when he talks about it, it's more with incomprehension than snobbish disdain. |
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Bessey encountered a spectrum of incomprehension, scorn, puzzlement and good will. |
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In fact, it's only when I ask for another coffee that he complains, his voice pitched somewhere between disgust and incomprehension. |
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Official reaction was one of complete incomprehension as to how such a thing could even happen. |
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It's then that I glance over at Irian, who is listening to our niceties with complete incomprehension. |
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But, as my conversation with two Georgian fellows spilled out into the corridor, I sensed the rising waters of mutual incomprehension. |
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On the other hand, there is still a very real cynicism, unease and basic incomprehension which prevents complete acceptance. |
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So, what we have is not a clash of civilizations but mutual complicity in proliferating mutual incomprehension. |
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On the whole, not a great success, ending as it did in mumbling confession of love, response of utter incomprehension and threats of violence from older brother. |
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It was a mix of sympathy, disappointment and incomprehension. |
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Sadly, these days there are a great many problems of incomprehension, blackmail and contempt! |
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He expresses loathing for its stuffy, class-ridden collegiate atmosphere, and incomprehension for the very British phenomenon of inverted snobbery. |
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There is only nostalgia, an emergency call to tomorrow, nothing but incomprehension among deferring layers of dissembled wishes for expression. |
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All they have to do is let slip a few fragments to see the incomprehension in the eyes of the people they love. |
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Yet we met at a time when mutual suspicion, anger, outrage, puzzlement, fear and incomprehension were in the ascendance. |
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Among brothers there may still occur moments of sternness, incomprehension, and the resulting tears. |
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If they calmly endure his dumb questions and stubborn incomprehension they may end up looking silly, and if they show their irritation they risk coming across as jerks. |
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Europe's dealings with China are still marked by suspicion, not to say incomprehension. |
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A dangerous gap of mutual mistrust and incomprehension has opened between the world of euro-zone politics and the financial markets. |
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Yet such is not the case and the false promises can only generate incomprehension and resentment. |
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As in the past, it can come up against situations of incomprehension, mistrust and lack of material resources. |
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If mutual incomprehension and outdated stereotypes persist, a more solid and long-lasting peace will prove elusive. |
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It also produces incomprehension in Kosovo, for at the end of the day, it is Kosovo itself that has to be reconstructed and not Greece. |
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In fact, this incomprehension is rooted in a misunderstanding that needs to be brought clearly to light. |
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The absence, or shortcomings of this dialogue give constant rise to incomprehension and tension, and even conflict. |
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It underlines the need for a dialogue among the civilizations to fill the gap of incomprehension between the peoples of the Mediterranean shores. |
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We experience the uneasiness and incomprehension between Léa and her father. |
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There were those who lagged behind out of incomprehension, political calculation, or timidity. |
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The rest of the world has reacted to the idea of such a child with horror and incomprehension. |
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But here, the main issue is civilian incomprehension of the horrors of war, as a shell-shocked young hero returns home only to greet news of his DSO with disgust. |
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Children, left to their own devices, stand on the sidelines where they observe the grown-ups with a mixture of incomprehension and sudden insight. |
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I must have had an expression of absolute incomprehension, because she looked away from me and repeated the question in a slightly less emphatic tone. |
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The tone betrayed his incomprehension of those stupid blue collar voters who don't understand their own interests as well as Matt does, but the facts were welcome. |
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To answer your second question, I think we need to do our best to avert mutual incomprehension and deepen mutual understanding, because the lack of understanding breeds conflict. |
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Jonathan Chait thinks it must be genuine incomprehension, because Republicans would never deliberately have put themselves in their untenable current position. |
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He predicts that collective bemused vague incomprehension will continue. |
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Simon broke off and turned to Piggy who was looking at him with an expression of derisive incomprehension. |
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A land where fear causes impenetrable walls to be built, concrete walls, walls of hate and of incomprehension, walls which entrap hearts in a desire for vengeance. |
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The aide gave the old men in Ward Two their medicine, and they joked with her. Shevek watched with dull incomprehension. |
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Through their music, the members of the group plunge our heads in the cesspool of their failures and the tormenting incomprehension of all of the simple things that confront us in everyday life. |
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The boldness and originality of his music met with incomprehension and was mocked by the powerful Viennese critic Eduard Hanslick, who was a champion of the German composer Johannes Brahms and was antipathetic toward Wagner. |
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However, precautions which involve the snapping-off of a 4 cm-long nail file or the removal from hand luggage of nail scissors available on any high street prompt reactions of incomprehension among travellers. |
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That rank incomprehension — one might less charitably call it arrogant cluelessness — stretched from the coffee klatch at the Gezira Club through the entire government. |
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All of them have drunk of the bitterness of seeing the incomprehension of a world that is blind to the truth, of humanity insensible of beauty and good. |
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I'd edit out all my gauche incomprehension. |
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Always the same incomprehension born of the same blindness. |
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Its incomprehension of the plight of the disabled is nothing new. |
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